Viewing Simon Meyers (1862-1952).

Simon Meyers was admitted to the bars of New York and Minnesota in 1883, at age twenty-one. He practiced law with associates or solo in Minneapolis for the next sixty-nine years. He died at age ninety on August 12, 1952, two days after finishing his last brief. In an affectionate tribute at memorial proceedings for the Hennepin County Bar Association the following year, a friend, George Leonard, recalled the 1880s and 1890s when Meyers first began practicing:

"Like the old family physician, a member the Bar had to be an all-around lawyer, being able to match his wits in combat with an adversary on the field of battle right here in the court room. In this field, Simon Meyers won his laurels. He was able, ambitious and industrious."